Fasting and Feasting The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray
eBook - 2017
“Of all my culinary heroes, Patience Gray was the most magical...Adam Federman’s beautifully considered and well-researched biography shines a bright light on Gray’s complicated, surprising, and gutsy life.”―Alice Waters, owner, Chez Panisse; author of The Art of Simple FoodA New York Times Notable Book for 2017—Now in PaperbackFor more than thirty years, Patience Gray—author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed—lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbors in this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself and her f...riends, yet her growing reputation brought a steady stream of international visitors to her door. This simple and isolated life she chose for herself may help explain her...
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Rizzoli
- Language
- English
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- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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ASIN | B0751G6W4X |
Release Date | 8/23/2017 |
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File Size | 7 GB |
ISBN | 9781603586092 |
Release Date | 8/23/2017 |